[Parmy]

We have cousins who live on Mercer Island, near Seattle, in Washington State. After Seattle came out with the idea that they are going to fine people if they throw away too much edible food, I asked her if that affected them.

She said it didn't, except that they had to use paper bags for groceries, now, and not plastic.

So, the plastic fills landfills and sea turtles swallow them. But, the paper bags cause the death of trees. Sheesh!

[KoRn]

We vacationed at the Outer banks of North Carolina a few years ago, and they have a ban on plastic bags there(apparently). At the only two big grocery stores in our area, they only had paper bags, and it sucked. We were on vacation though, so we didn’t really care, but if we had to put up with that on a daily basis, it would be a terrible inconvenience.